Milk strainer



F Y 1943. E. H. LOKER 2,325,257

MILK STRAINER Filed July 25, 42

I u uenmr .EZvzer L a/er M W W I Home Patented July 27, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MILK STRAINER Elmer n. Loker, Sergeant Bluff,.Iowa ApplicationJuly 25, 1942, Serial'No.452,345 1 Claim. (01.210-157) The invention relates to an improved strainer for use with milk cans, the primary object of the invention being to provide an eificient strainer for this use wherein the dirt strained from the milk is not forced through the straining element into the milk or caused to accumulate in the straining medium. I

Other important objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from a reading of the following description taken in connection. with the appended drawing, wherein for purposes of illustration a preferred embodiment of the invention is shown.

In the drawing-- Figure 1 is a general transverse vertical sectional view taken through the embodiment.

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken through Figure 1 along the line 2' -2 and looking downwardly in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken through Figure 1 along the line 33 and looking downwardly inthe direction of the arrows.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary side elevational View of the neck of the bowl. v

Figure 5 is a top plan view of one of the sectional perforated disks, and

Figure 6 is a top plan view of the sectional filter pad.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral 5 generally designates the improved milk strainer which consists of a milk receiving bowl 6 having a depending reduced neck I which empties into a sediment trap and container 8 which surrounds the open lower end of the neck I and is support ably connected thereto.

is generally designated 2| and may suitably be formed of stout wire is broken at, thepointf22- where the ends of the wire have, inwardly directed terminals 23. The diameter of the ring 2| is larger than that of the container 8 so that when it is contracted and snapped under the overhanging lip 9 it will expand and forcibly engage under the lip and compress the upper perforated plate I 8 down upon the pad l5 and the lower perforated disk ll, thereby assembling the plates and the 8 and that in so'doing the milk does not forcibly impinge upon the filtering or straining element as is ordinarily the case. Instead the milk rises and The sediment trap and container 8 is in the form of a bowl with an inturned lip 9 at its upper end. Spaced below the lip 9 is a ledge [0 which runs around the interior of the trap 8.

Resting upon the ledge'lO is a perforated disk I l formed integrally on the neck I and spaced above the disk and also integrally formed on the neck is a flange l2. Upon the disk ll rests the sectional filter pad which is generally designated l5 and is composed of the similar generally semicircular sections l6 and I1 whose inner edges engage and grasp the sides of the depending neck 1. Upon the filter pad l5 rests the sectional upper perforated plate l8 which is composed of duplicate semi-circular sections l9 and 20 similarto the filter pad, the plate l8 being disposed immediately under the flange l2. A spring ring which may be required by be observed that the heavier particles of the milk have a tendency to fall gravitationally into'the bottom of the trap as the milk rises to pass through the filter orstrainer element. In addition, such particles asmay collect atthe bottom of the filter element have a natural tendency to I fall therefrom and fail to become lodged in the filter element, so that the filter element is clear of obstruction at all times.

Although'there is shown and described herein I a preferred embodiment of the invention it is to be understood that it is not desired to limit the application of the invention thereto except as the scope of the subjoined claim.

I Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is: J

A strainer of the class described comprising a receiving bowl having a depending neck, a per-f forated disk integrally formed on said neck, a flange integrally formed on the neck above the disk, a strainer element removably secured .on the neck between the disk and the flange, a container having an inturned lip and an internal shoulder below the lip, and a split ring compressed under said lip of the container and clamping the strainer element and disk on said shoulder.

ELMER H. LOKER. 

